Amazon has one of the most effective affiliate systems on the planet. Much of their success is due to the fact that they make it very easy to create individual product links. With many employees who need to create Amazon Affiliate links without associate ID, we were looking for a quick and easy way to generate links.
Here’s a simple tool we found for creating Amazon links easily.
SeaWaves was instrumental in developing a new social news site called Glamorati. Our concept with Glamorati was to develop a brand that simultaneously represented the average person’s A) love of celebrity culture and B) hatred of celebrity culture. In other words, “the Glamorati” stands for “common people who enjoy tracking the lives of celebrities, but enjoy mocking them too.”
As a social news site, Glamorati allows users to register and submit snarky (hopefully better than the original) headlines with links to their favorite stories. What sets Glamorati apart from the masses of social media sites on the internet is the emphasis on snarky celebrity headlines and the fact that user submissions are all vetted by editors, with the hopes of maintaining a high level of quality.
In addition to the main page, Glamorati is complimented by a celebrity news blog called News from the Glamorati.
SeaWaves is pleased to announce that we’ve hired Dan Stein as a fulltime edtor for The Dog Guide.
Our over-riding philosophy as an online web publisher is to enable smart and passionate people to building resources about what they love. Dan has been working with dogs in professional environments for many years, and he has a wealth of wisdom to share with us. We’re excited about his plans for taking The Dog Guide to the next level.
The Dog Guide is a premier dog information site that provides detailed tips and suggestions for finding and raising dogs.
SeaWaves is partnering with several high profile individuals online to test out the Advertising and Marketing niche in it’s latest project called AdSavvy. The basic idea behind AdSavvy is to analyze print and tv commercial ads and help identify the keys to creating ads that work.
The hope with AdSavvy is to create a smart but interesting center of advertising and marketing philosophy and to leverage this into high-profile consulting opportunities.
SeaWaves has launched a group microblog called Thrive which covers news in popular culture. As the web moves increasingly towards headline oriented information, microblogging is where everything is happening these days. Just check out Twitter.
Does your business want a Twitter presence? Or do you want to set up your own private microblog for brainstorming? SeaWaves can help. Contact us today.
SeaWaves Technology has focused almost all of its efforts on doing SEO for local niche blogs and websites. The great thing about local niche blogging is that the competition is much less fierce, the advertising dollars are much more targeted, and the path to success is much clearer.
In fact, with every project we’ve taken on, we’ve managed to get front page Google results for some important local search phrases.
Most online experts agree that the next major revolution on the web will be the local web. The development of networks and websites that facilitate local interaction. We’re excited to be positioned to help businesses leverage search as this trend continues.
When customers come to us looking for linkbait, they are usually really looking for a short term spike in traffic from Digg or some other social media venue.
But the short term traffic spike from Digg is not worth very much on it’s own. In fact, there only two reasons that we continue to use Digg:
This is the idea that if your article is good enough to get a few solid mentions on some well read sources, you’ll likely get picked up by all the other sites that use them as sources. As an example, we recently had an article picked up by Sports Illustrated. Within an hour, the article was picked up by over 15 additional sports blogs. A few of those were powerful sites themselves, and resulted in even more coverage.
The freemium business model uses free content to attract traffic. Also, the free content is used to market paid content. Paid content can also be called premium content. Hence, the term freemium (free + premium). This is an excellent model because it helps you avoid these two common pitfalls when building commercially-oriented sites.
I used to think you could get away with rehashed content as long as you had enough successful linkbait to back it up. The linkbaits get you a ton of links, which increases your site’s overall rankings in Google including the rankings of the rehashed content.
However, I think this is not the way to go anymore. Why do I think this?
Because the competition in the linkbaiting realm is a lot tougher.
Everyone Is Doing Linkbait
Linkbait is a common thing now. Many webmasters know about it and are trying to do it. Most of the top SEO firms have added linkbait to their services. SEO blogs write about linkbait often.
It used to be that if you got on the front page of Digg, you got a massive amount of links including from popular sites. That’s not the case anymore. Today, a front page story often gets less than 10 quality links.
My theory is that Digg and the other social voting sites have been saturated by linkbait. Many people jumped on the linkbait bandwagon and started submitting their top 7 lists to these sites. This increase in competition made it harder for individual submissions to get noticed even if they did make the front page.
So, what can you do?
Marketing through social voting sites is the new big thing for webmasters today. These sites include Digg, Propeller, StumbleUpon, and Reddit. Many search marketers are now adding this type of marketing to help them build links.
The attraction of social voting marketing (SVM) is that you can get a lot of traffic to your site with (seemingly) minimal effort. Depending on your skill, SVM can lead to a massive amount of quality backlinks. Andy Hagans, a search expert, says SVM (he calls it “link baiting”) gives the best ROI for your link building efforts.